Yet another "Communications Decency Act"! Suit has been filed
in Federal court to stop the tampering with communication on the Internet.
This legislation contains most of the unconstitutional flaws of the original
CDA:

Though the sponsors of CDA II claim it is intended to address
only commercial pornographers intentionally targeting minors, the actual
language of the bill is vague and overbroad, and will sweep in much more
than explicit for-profit visual materials. The bill will censor a wide
variety of legitimate, protected expression, for adults as well as children.

Congress's own posting of the Starr report would likely violate
this Act of Congress.

What is appropriate for some 5-year-olds is not the same
thing as what is appropriate for some 16-year-olds, and this bill fails
to take account of this basic fact.

Intentionally providing a minor with "harmful matter", online
or offline, is already illegal under general obscenity and harmful-to-minor
statutes. Congress cannot expand this to a ban on all online publication
(which the bill amounts to; the Supreme Court has already found that the
kind of age verification this bill, like the CDA, calls for is impractical).

A broad coalition has formed to
defend Internet freedoms. To find out
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